Hours of the Dead, 1414-1423.Artist: Workshop of the Master of the Duke of Bedford

Hours of the Dead, 1414-1423. Vignettes representing deathbed scenes: doctor's visit; confession; communion; extreme unction and burial. From the Bedford Hours of John, Duke of Bedford, produced in Paris. Illustration from School of Illumination, Reproductions from Manuscripts in the British Museum, Part VI, French mid 14th to 16th century, (British Museum, Bernard Quaritch, London, 1930). (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)